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‛Medicine Shortages Amid Siege Leave People in Peril in Gaza’; ‛How Israel Is Weaponizing Infectious Diseases in Gaza’; ‛Gaza’s Painful Journeys’: Walking is the main expression of our misery in Gaza. We walk to survive, to swiftly escape the Israeli bombardments and invasions, to provide for our families. And we walk because we have no other option but to walk.
‛BJP’s West Bengal Sweep Was Broad, But the Numbers Reveal a More Complicated Story’; ‛Data Shows SIR Helped BJP Win Bengal’; ‛In Half the Seats BJP Won in Bengal, Total SIR Deletions Outnumber Victory Margin’; ‛BJP’s SIR Gamble Paid Off in Bengal, But It Wasn’t the Only Factor Behind Its Win’; ‛How BJP Swept Bengal with Micro Campaigns’. Also, extract from: ‛How RSS Engineered Hindu Consolidation Beyond Caste and Changed the Game’.
‛Bengal Burns: How Mamata Picked Up Her Enemy’s Weapon and Got Burnt’; ‛Bengal Was the First Breeding Ground of Hindu Nationalism and the Idea of Hindutva Originated There’: Is Hindu nationalism which had started in Bengal in the second half of the 19th century coming full circle?
Anyone familiar with Assam’s political history would know that disdain for Miya Muslims holds great sway over the dominant Assamese psyche. It serves as a scaffolding to other issues (like welfare and development), quietly deciding which button they press on polling day.
Two political activists – Khadija Mumtaz and P. Usha Devi – shed light on how two potent symbols played a role in these elections.
On May 10, the Prime Minister issued seven appeals to the nation – all of whose purpose was to save foreign exchange. The people are being told: prepare to tighten your belts. But it is not the common people who have created the present foreign exchange crisis.
The contrast between the Manmohan Singh government’s management of India–Iran relations under US pressure and the Modi government’s abject capitulation is the clearest possible illustration of what strategic autonomy means in practice, as opposed to in rhetoric.
On its first anniversary, Sushant Singh in Delhi and Khurram Husain in Karachi sit down with Varadarajan to discuss questions related to Operation Sindoor and draw up a balance sheet – military, political, and diplomatic.
‛How Indian States Are Using FIRs to Reframe Wage-Related Workers’ Disputes as Crimes’; ‛Money, ID, Only Link to Family: Noida Police Hold on to Phones Despite Workers Being Released’; ‛May Day Under Police Watch in Noida: Workers’ Resistance Persists’.
‛Press Freedom in India: “Caged Voices, Silenced Truths”’: On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective assembled a deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing of jailed journalists like Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj. Also: ‛Corporate Control and Political Pressure: The Twin Pillars of Media Decline in India’.
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